Dams both mighty and modest dot the Connecticut landscape, but dams are the wallpaper of the environment. They go mostly unnoticed — until the deluge. What they do for th...
According to Connecticut U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat, former President Donald Trump, a Republican, is guilty of "appeasement" because of his skepticism about the war ...
I’m in Naples for an annual “boys weekend” with my old friends Giampa and Simone. Naples, Italy, that is — not Florida. Napoli, the original southern Italian city. Lan...
Mike France, the Republican launching a new challenge against U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, has hired a Trump lawyer who unsuccessfully challenged the 2020 election results in court.
Old Lyme — Maybe the real stars of the show here are members of the hiring committee, who inspected 16 other candidates and ultimately chose this 21-year-old, perhaps sum...
Iris Apfel was that 102-year-old lady with those big round glasses and that big red smile. She'd wear plastic bangles found on street carts with vintage couturier jackets...
Our modestly sized corner of the world punches above its weight in many categories, not the least of which is exporting Major League Baseball players. Who knew our little...
Let’s see – panoramic views: Check.
Well-marked, thoughtfully laid out and exceptionally maintained trails: Check.
Distinctive rock formations, impressive ridges and cave...
The state already collects a 15% tax on short-term rentals, and his proposal would allow the Department of Revenues Service to remit some of that back to cities and towns where the rentals are located.
Next time the governor and state legislators boast about the decline in Connecticut's prison population, remember the recent report in the Hearst Connecticut newspapers a...
How ironic, if not miraculous, that the UConn men’s basketball players represent the university and play the game with poise and composure so completely lacking in their ...
With casualties in Gaza exceeding 100,000, the obliteration of the territory and the reduction of Gazans to such a state of desperation that over 100 died trying to acce...
Maybe fate’s guiding hand planned this long ago. Or maybe it’s plain old serendipity. But how fitting that the conscience of Wheeler High’s last act comes at a time when ...
Landlords have become the scapegoats for Democratic state legislators who want to show they are doing something about the high cost of rental housing and the difficulties...
The Wall Street Journal ran a curious piece titled, "Is It Ever OK to Have an 8 a.m. Meeting?" It contained two dubious assumptions: (1) That 8 a.m. is very early in the ...
The message, via Facebook, arrived sometime Thursday.
“Mike,” former UConn guard Maria Conlon wrote, “you made me quite famous last week, LOL. Hope you are well.”
And wha...
Where is it written that the crazier Alabama, Texas or Idaho get, the crazier Connecticut must get too?
But that seems to be the premise of the leftist faction of the Dem...